Cloacal bacterial diversity increases with multiple mates: evidence of sexual transmission in female common lizards.

Sexually transmitted diseases have often been suggested as a potential cost of multiple mating and as playing a major role in the evolution of mating systems. Yet there is little empirical data relating mating strategies to sexually transmitted microorganisms in wild populations. We investigated whe...

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Main Authors: Joël White, Murielle Richard, Manuel Massot, Sandrine Meylan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3141023?pdf=render

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